20-01-2021, 09:08 AM
A preliminary question: if we believe that the VM is genuine and we believe in the history of its transmission, why do we believe the facts resulting from those assumptions.
The court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague was surely full of highly educated people, Kepler among them. Dozens of people well acquainted with Latin and other languages must have seen the VM. They were closer historically to understanding it, but they found nothing that resembled Latin or any other language.
Now, 400 years later it seems that we want to see what they did not see. Doesn't this sound a bit arrogant?
The court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague was surely full of highly educated people, Kepler among them. Dozens of people well acquainted with Latin and other languages must have seen the VM. They were closer historically to understanding it, but they found nothing that resembled Latin or any other language.
Now, 400 years later it seems that we want to see what they did not see. Doesn't this sound a bit arrogant?